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absolution

N การ สวด อ้อนวอน ให้ อภัยโทษ  kan-suat-on-won-hai-a-phai-ya-thod

 

absolution

N การอภัยโทษ  นิรโทษกรรม  การให้อภัย บาป  forgiveness kan-a-phai-ya-thod

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ABSOLUTION

n.In the civil law, an acquittal or sentence of a judge declaring an accused person innocent. In the canon law, a remission of sins pronounced by a priest in favor of a penitent. Among protestants, a sentence by which an excommunicated person is released from his liability to punishment.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ABSOLUTION

Ab `so *lu "tion, n. Etym: [F. absolution, L. absolutio, fr. absolvere to absolve. See Absolve. ]

 

1. An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense. "Government. .. granting absolution to the nation. " Froude.

 

2. (Civil Law )

 

Defn: An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent. [Obs. ]

 

3. (R. C. Ch. )

 

Defn: The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven.

 

Note: In the English and other Protestant churches, this act regarded as simply declaratory, not as imparting forgiveness.

 

4. (Eccl.)

 

Defn: An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication. P. Cyc.

 

5. The form of words by which a penitent is absolved. Shipley.

 

6. Delivery, in speech. [Obs. ] B. Jonson. Absolution day (R. C. Ch. ), Tuesday before Easter.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

absolution

ab so lu tion |ˌabsəˈlo͞oSHən ˌæbsəˈl (j )uʃən | noun formal release from guilt, obligation, or punishment. an ecclesiastical declaration of forgiveness of sins: the priest administered absolution. ORIGIN Middle English: via Old French from Latin absolutio (n- ), from the verb absolvere (see absolve ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

absolution

ab ¦so |lu ¦tion |absəˈluːʃ (ə )n | noun [ mass noun ] formal release from guilt, obligation, or punishment. ecclesiastical declaration that a person's sins have been forgiven: she had been granted absolution for her sins. ORIGIN Middle English: via Old French from Latin absolutio (n- ), from the verb absolvere (see absolve ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

absolution

absolution noun Christianity Father, I am a sinful man in need of absolution: forgiveness, pardon, exoneration, remission, dispensation, indulgence, clemency, mercy; discharge, acquittal; freedom, deliverance, release; vindication; formal exculpation; archaic shrift. ANTONYMS punishment, condemnation.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

absolution

absolution noun Christianity she had been given absolution for her sins: forgiveness, pardoning, exoneration, remission, dispensation, indulgence, purgation, clemency, mercy; pardon, reprieve, discharge, amnesty, delivery, acquittal, clearing; freedom, liberation, deliverance, release; condoning, vindication, exculpation; informal let-off, letting off; archaic shrift, shriving. ANTONYMS punishment.

 

Duden Dictionary

Absolution

Ab so lu ti on Substantiv, feminin katholische Kirche , die |Absoluti o n |die Absolution; Genitiv: der Absolution, Plural: die Absolutionen lateinisch absolutio = das Freisprechen (vor Gericht ), zu: absolvere, absolvieren Freisprechung von Sünden die Absolution erhalten | jemandem [die ] Absolution erteilen | figurativ oft scherzhaft denk nicht, dass wir dir für deine Extravaganzen Absolution erteilen dass wir sie verzeihen

 

French Dictionary

absolution

absolution n. f. nom féminin 1 Rémission des péchés accordée par un prêtre à la suite de la confession. 2 droit Pardon accordé à un coupable.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

absolution

ab so lu tion /æ̀bsəlúːʃ (ə )n /名詞 U キリスト教 (罪の )許し, 赦免 ; (義務 責任の )免除 .